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6 November 3963

MEMORANDUM FGR: Chief, Special Affatra Sta

SUBJECT t AMWOKLD--Project JMHART

1, Chief, WH/T has tentatively offered the services of CLA
contract personnel! assigned.to this | project--principally those of the
Pirector of of the the Panamericana Foundation, Mr, Cartie Wilguds-to eorve
ae a channel to ex-1 Teeident Figueres and Foreign Kinieter ¢ Cduber
in promoting the acceptability of AMWORLD end AMBIDDY-1 by the
moderate left. Under the terma of the JMHART Froject, CIA, through
' (Curt is ¥ Ucusn will be able to iafluence the composition. of.the atudent 5
‘body of the School for b Inter-American Development, It ia proyosed ed that
Wilgusswould tell tell _Figueres and Cuuber that it is intended to also enroll
Cubane in thefechool. ‘and that in the opinion of ouethey should be
draen from exile organizations known to be dedicated to democratic
principles, such as Artime's MRR, Manolo kiay'e JURE, the MAP
. and MDC. It is unlikely that Figueres and Cduber would damur. In
‘ any case, thelr demurreis could be overruled, The prominent mention
. of the MRK ae @ cradice of democratic ideas and the actual inclusion of
' students selected by Artime would postulate acceptance af the MR and
; of Artime ag exponents of a political philosophy acceptable to the mode-
rate Jeft. Any excoriation of Artime for having allied himeelf with the

! Somosas would be blunted if the MRR forms a part of thavetudeut body
Be faculty) of. “Inter-Amer

(and cooteivabl y the faculty) of the Achool of Inter-American Developmeat:

2. I intend to suggest to Artime that he poy his respects to
Figueres in Cambridge, of course without alluding to the/school project.
The purpose of the call would, quite {rankly, be to butter up Figueree.


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AU the fuformation J have been able lo gather suggests that the cambi-
sation of Munos biarta/rigueres, as far ae Waeshinzton ie concerned,
ig undcatable and thet Artime haa littie choice but to ali;m himself with
their way of looking at things--or at leset to pay lip service to it.

$3. Another angie I would like to explore te President Betancourt.
The more 1 read of his accomplishments as president, toe more im-
pressediam, hat would you think of having Artime, armed with a
letter of introduction from Fizveres, pay Betancourt a call before he
relinguishes tha presidency. Artime's approach would sot be that of a
supplicant of solicitor of support, bul (hat of a young man making &
pilgrimage, eitting at the feet of a revolutionary who hes been successful,
absorbing knowledge of how it wae dona, Ie could ask Betancourt, after
he is out from wader the daily grind of government, to addreas bimeelf
to the problems of poet-Castro Cube. He could invite him to chair a
seminar attended by the MRR leadership. The objective would, of course,
be te invulve Betancourt im the affairs af the ALRK, wilhout swtting his
aame on the magthead and without asking him to contribute anything but
reflections of his lustre ae 4 Latin American leader who bequeathed his
country @ constitutional and democratic regime. Undoubtedly Artimne
will have to cest off Ideolo ical ballast in order to accommodate his
reluctant sponsore ((igueres,. Betancourt), but Havana "“vaut bien une
mesoe.'"' As a minimum objective, Artime would in any case have to
etrive to neutralise the lztent animosities of the moderate left, denying
tasnolo Kay an unchallenged arcendancy in monopelizing its support,
which he can probsbly cet for the asking.

4. A welcome by-product of the recugcibation of JA'HART,
fe “Combate, "an influential periodical with strong readership appeal
in Latin America among elements of the modorate left, edited by

(Monje, A German national! named Ur. Erich Hersog who is a member

‘of the Socia} Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) hae been Jecturing
tn San Jose on an “Ideological Inquiry into Comniunism,'' his program,
_Andirectly eponsored by the Federal Republic, GALI be absorbed by;
{IMHART, ie whelde considerable influence in molding the of
Central America's left of center leadership. The Firet Secretary of
the Israeli Embesry in Cuatemais hes aloo been mentioned as influential
among the {ntellectual alte. A Fuerto Rican named centiago Polante

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(Preeident of the Assembly) fe Munos A‘arta's man in eponsoring
SMHART, and fe cuotea as having referred to Figuerese ac the guiding

light, evershadowing al! others.

Bee, fo

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Henry D. Heckcher
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